Hongdae chicken feet bar with kalguksu and daechang: Cheongnyeon 1987

Today's recommendation is a chicken feet spot in Hongdae that comes to mind on stressful days: Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987 Hongdae Branch 🔥 Cheongnyeon Dakbal is a Hongdae bar, Yeonnam-dong bar famous for its deliciously spicy chicken feet, sitting right between Yeonnam-dong and Hongdae, which made it easy to get to. And best of all, the place was packed with retro vibes so the atmosphere was great too 👍🏻 If you're looking for chicken feet with both good vibes and good taste, here it is ✨

Where Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987 Hongdae Branch is, and what it costs

Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987 Hongdae Branch

• 📍218-1 Donggyo-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• 🔥Takeout/delivery available
• 🔥Cheongnyeon Dakbal Combo ₩39,000
• 🔥Chicken feet and odeng soup ₩35,000
• 🔥Soup chicken feet (single) ₩9,500
• 🔥Grilled chicken feet (single) ₩11,000
• 🔥Naver reservations available

Table spacing and tablet ordering at Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987

At Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987 Hongdae Branch, every table had its own tablet for convenient ordering, and the spacing between tables was wide enough that conversation was easy 👍🏻 Honestly, the most annoying thing at a bar is tables packed so close together that you can't hear each other over the noise, but here the generous table spacing made for comfortable conversation 〰️

Retro interior and graffiti-covered walls

The overall vibe at this Hongdae bar was full of old-school retro charm, and pens were provided at the tables so you could scribble your memories onto the walls 〰️

What's on the menu

The menu ranges from various single chicken feet dishes — soup, grilled, mala — to side dishes like mukbap, kalguksu, rice balls, and fried chicken skin, plus set menus that let you enjoy chicken feet together with kalguksu, rice balls, mukbap and fried chicken skin all at once, so there was plenty of variety to try 👍🏻

What comes in the 39,000-won Cheongnyeon Dakbal set

Ta-da ✨ What I ordered was the Cheongnyeon Dakbal Combo 🔥 It lets you enjoy chicken feet, mukbap, rice balls, kalguksu, and fried chicken skin all at once — and this is only 39,000 won?

Soup chicken feet with added daechang, then kalguksu mixed into the sauce

What I ordered was soup chicken feet with daechang (beef intestine) added 🔥 There were three types of chicken feet — tulip, boneless, and bone-in — and mine came already cooked from the kitchen, so I could dig in right away 〰️ Honestly, I thought, chicken feet with kalguksu? but this is exactly the trick here ,,, ✨ Mixing the kalguksu noodles into the chicken feet sauce was genuinely delicious 👍🏻

Sides: tuna mayo rice balls, muksabal and fried chicken skin

The sides that come with the Cheongnyeon Dakbal Combo were the essential tuna mayo rice ball, mukbap to clean your palate between bites of chicken feet, and fried chicken skin that's also great dipped in the soup chicken feet sauce ✨ It really was a substantial, satisfying spread 👍🏻

How many people does the set feed?

Since this Hongdae bar's combo comes as a set menu, I worried the portions might be on the small side, but the side dishes were also generously portioned, making it a menu that 2-3 people could easily enjoy 〰️

The daechang I added as a topping to the soup chicken feet was plump and generous in amount, and the amount of cheese provided as a base was also plenty 👍🏻 This is a place that goes big on portions by default, so by the end I felt like I was about to burst ,,,,🫶🏻

Perilla leaf wraps and the outdoor tables

Wrapping the chicken feet, daechang and cheese together with cellophane noodles in a perilla leaf was genuinely delicious 〰️ There are outdoor tables outside the shop too, so this is a place I'd want to visit even in fall and winter 🔥

If you're looking for a good-vibes Hongdae bar, a Yeonnam-dong bar where you can enjoy deliciously spicy chicken feet along with a variety of sides, I recommend Cheongnyeon Dakbal 1987 Hongdae Branch 🔥